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Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

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Re: Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

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Post by avgDev »

paxys wrote: post #15

Leadership - "All employees are required to use AI and be X% more productive" Employees find that AI tools are useless and don't increase productivity. Leaders say - You are using the tools wrong. Figure it out. Employees now have to work longer hours or risk getting fired. Company does layoffs under the guise of "we replaced workers with AI" and the stock market rewards them for it.

Maybe I could create a grift company that tells other companies why they are using AI wrong.

After working for a few weeks at high hourly rate, produce a report. Then grift the next suites.

Re: Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

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Post by slater »

avgDev wrote: post #51
paxys wrote: post #15

Leadership - "All employees are required to use AI and be X% more productive" Employees find that AI tools are useless and don't increase productivity. Leaders say - You are using the tools wrong. Figure it out. Employees now have to work longer hours or risk getting fired. Company does layoffs under the guise of "we replaced workers with AI" and the stock market rewards them for it.

Maybe I could create a grift company that tells other companies why they are using AI wrong. After working for a few weeks at high hourly rate, produce a report. Then grift the next suites.

> After working for a few weeks at high hourly rate, produce a report. Then grift the next suites.

Bonus points if you just have ChatGPT spit out the report :D

Re: Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

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Post by pixl97 »

rawgabbit wrote: post #27
nxobject wrote: post #16

For context, this is the whole list of metrics measured by their Eye of Sauron tool, Viva Insights – it seems to be split between Outlook, Teams, Office, and Copilot data. The Outlook and Teams stuff seems to relate to time spent on their individual platforms, but the Copilot-by-app stuff is hilarious. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/advanced/ref... I look forward to the equivalent of a mouse jiggler.

Well Peter Thiel did refer to Bill Gates as the anti-christ.

He knows, he was in the same coven.

Re: Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

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Post by pixl97 »

dfxm12 wrote: post #19
toomuchtodo wrote: post #2

They’re so desperate to make it work. > “A source that has seen materials related to sales has confirmed that, as of August 2025, Microsoft has around eight million active licensed users of Microsoft 365 Copilot, amounting to a 1.81% conversion rate across the 440 million Microsoft 365 subscribers.” Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45476045 - October 2025

Our org has legal/security requirements around AI. MS is not making themselves available to address these concerns or giving our admins the information that is being asked for. There are also ever changing, inscrutable licensing schemes, and too many similarly named products. It's impossible to know what to buy or how much it is going to cost. This is even before you get to the quality of the product itself. I mean,…

>inscrutable licensing schemes, and too many similarly named products.

This has always been Microsoft's MO. They used to have a team you could call to figure out which product you actually needed.

Re: Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

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Post by whiplash451 »

paxys wrote: post #15

Leadership - "All employees are required to use AI and be X% more productive" Employees find that AI tools are useless and don't increase productivity. Leaders say - You are using the tools wrong. Figure it out. Employees now have to work longer hours or risk getting fired. Company does layoffs under the guise of "we replaced workers with AI" and the stock market rewards them for it.

Honestly at this point if you’re a dev and not using a coding assistant at all and in any possible way, you are indeed becoming a liability to your company.

Now, Copilot (the assistant, not the GitHub coding one) is hot garbage compared to Claude/ChatGPT but that’s another story.

Re: Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

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Post by ntoskrnl_exe »

dude250711 wrote: post #8

I guess teams that are clever enough to avoid Copilot are also clever enough to write a script to call it on repeat in the background, while they are doing something more useful. Autonomous agents are all the rage anyway, isn't it?

A couple days ago there was a post here about how most LLMs enter an endless replying loop if you ask them to show you the non-existing seahorse emoji. Asking it to show you one and minimizing the window might be enough.

Re: Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

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Post by Lionga »

whiplash451 wrote: post #57
paxys wrote: post #15

Leadership - "All employees are required to use AI and be X% more productive" Employees find that AI tools are useless and don't increase productivity. Leaders say - You are using the tools wrong. Figure it out. Employees now have to work longer hours or risk getting fired. Company does layoffs under the guise of "we replaced workers with AI" and the stock market rewards them for it.

Honestly at this point if you’re a dev and not using a coding assistant at all and in any possible way , you are indeed becoming a liability to your company. Now, Copilot (the assistant, not the GitHub coding one) is hot garbage compared to Claude/ChatGPT but that’s another story.

If you are submitting AI Slop code or overuse AI then you are a liability.

If you don't use AI at all you might be 5 or 10% slower, but quality might well even make up for it.

Re: Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

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Post by sureglymop »

whiplash451 wrote: post #57
paxys wrote: post #15

Leadership - "All employees are required to use AI and be X% more productive" Employees find that AI tools are useless and don't increase productivity. Leaders say - You are using the tools wrong. Figure it out. Employees now have to work longer hours or risk getting fired. Company does layoffs under the guise of "we replaced workers with AI" and the stock market rewards them for it.

Honestly at this point if you’re a dev and not using a coding assistant at all and in any possible way , you are indeed becoming a liability to your company. Now, Copilot (the assistant, not the GitHub coding one) is hot garbage compared to Claude/ChatGPT but that’s another story.

On the other hand, many many (usually junior) engineers that have unfiltered access to coding assistants have basically become huge liabilities over night with tools like claude code.
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